Letters to the editor: America needs a proven leader

My 23-year-old daughter has asked me why there are so many attacks of candidates in the social media. She asked, “Will they really change any minds?”

President Obama said in 2008 that if you don’t have any ideas of your own, you need to scare people away from the other candidate.

I truly believe what this country is lacking is leadership, and that is one thing Mitt Romney can deliver. He has the resume that illustrates this and regularly delivered successes as a corporate executive with the Olympics and as a governor.

There are many things a good leader does, and the most important is to build relationships. We saw it with President Reagan and Tip O’Neil. We also saw it with President Clinton and Newt Gingrich. When Obama told the Republican leadership that elections have consequences and he won, he set the table for what we see today.

Regardless of what one thinks of Romney’s agenda, he will not have the control Obama had in his first two years as president. He will have to work with Democrats in the Senate, and he has proved he can do that based on his experience as governor in a heavily Democrat state.

NEIL A BAXTERRochester Hills

GOP could use sex educationRepublicans don’t even know how a child is conceived. One Republican said a woman’s body has a natural defense that won’t allow them to get pregnant if raped. He said a raped woman can’t get pregnant unless she enjoyed it. Where did this person get his sex education? Another described premarital sex by two consenting adults as the same as rape.

No matter your opinion on abortion, imagine your daughter coming home dirty, bruised and crying because she was raped. Because her ovaries just released an egg, and the rapist has healthy sperm, she’s pregnant. Then some idiot in the neighborhood scorns her because she enjoyed being raped. Ignorance harms people. Please do not vote for a party that has members who don’t even understand the basic facts of life. They certainly can’t see through a woman’s eyes.

Anyone who doesn’t understand the real facts on rape and conception, please talk to a doctor.